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This thread is for the Zero no Tsukaima manga as serialized in the seinen (young men's) manga magazine Comic Alive.

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Zero no Tsukaima manga will be serialized in the new seinen(young men's) manga magazine Comic Alive, the first issue (yes the first issue) of Comic Alive magazine will be released on 27/6/2006, and the first chapter of Zero no Tsukaima manga will be serialized on the first issue of this new seinen magazine

Even though there are currently 2 chapters out of this manga (well, only 2 issues of this new magazine are currently out), the first chapter has already been scanlated by AquaStar Fansub and Kawaii Heavens groups.

Since it's printed in a new monthly magazine (Comic Alive) and the date of the first issue (and therefore the publication of the first chapter of ZnT) was 27th June, I would hazard a guess to say the date the second chapter was released was a month after the first

Therefore chapter 2 was released on 25th July (assuming the last Tuesday of the month is the magazine's publishing date) and that chapter 3 will be released on the 22nd / 29th August.

So the manga production for this series is monthly not weekly correct?

Yeah, one chapter in a month.

On the main page of Comic Alive site you can see the current issue of Comic Alive magazine (the second issue of the magazine right now) which is featuring the characters from Kage Kara Mamoru! and yes Kage Kara Mamoru! also has a manga thats serialized in this seinen magazine. as I said this magazine will have comic-ization of seinen light novels that are published under the seinen label MF Bunko J

As to the first issue of the magazine, you can see it here featuring a very cute >.< character design of louise from Zero no Tsukaima.

Surprisingly, there are a lot of interesting mangas in Comic Alive. I bought it at first for Zero, but some of the other ones like "Kanaete Aizen", "Shiharu Genesis", "Mushi to Medama to Teddybear", "Fuusui Gakuen" etc. really caught my attention too. ^^ I buy it more for those titles now, Zero no Tsukaima is just a bonus. ^^;

Surprisingly, there are a lot of interesting mangas in Comic Alive. I bought it at first for Zero, but some of the other ones like "Kanaete Aizen", "Shiharu Genesis", "Mushi to Medama to Teddybear", "Fuusui Gakuen" etc. really caught my attention too. ^^ I buy it more for those titles now, Zero no Tsukaima is just a bonus. ^^;

...Off topic?

Yeah, Comic Alive seems to have a great line up of seinen manga

Since you mentioned the seinen manga "Fuusui Gakuen" you might already know that its based on a seinen light novel thats published under the male oriented label MF Bunko J (check the covers here).

Ahh but of course not every manga serialized in this magazine will be based on light novels from MF Bunko J, some manga will be original seinen manga (not based on anything :P ). well, there's also Happiness! manga thats based on an ero-game.

It seems like I have gone off topic too

Anyway, hopefully the groups working on Zero no Tsukaima manga will be continuing with it ^^

The same difference as there is between a novel and a comic book. One's mostly text with (potentially) a few illustrations scattered throughout, while the other is mostly illustrations with text superimposed on top of them, in word bubbles.